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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"low-cost technologies"”.
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Development of Low-Cost Technologies for Cervical Cancer Prevention in Low-Resource Settings
… the first or second leading cause of cancer in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with more than 85% of cervical cancer death occuring in LMICs. A lack of resources in these settings has made it difficult to implement effective cervical cancer screening, diagnosis, and preventative …
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An ex ante economic impact analysis of developing low cost technologies for pyramiding useful genes from wild relatives into elite progenitors of cassava
… ex-ante economic impact evaluation of developing low cost technologies for pyramiding useful genes from wild relatives into elite progenitors of cassava in Nigeria, Ghana and Uganda. More specifically, it estimates the change in economic surplus generated by introducing cassava varieties with …
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Carbon dioxide capture technology for the coal-powered electricity industry : a systematic prioritization of research needs
… continue the use of coal without emitting CO2, low cost technologies must be developed for capturing CO2 from power plants. Current CO2 capture technology is expensive, both in terms of capital and operating cost, so research and development efforts will be heavily relied upon to improve the …
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The Trojan horse as a Trojan horse
… to show that innovative learning with expressive technologies can happen even in economically disadvantaged regions, such as public education systems in Brazil, where our case studies took place. The contribution of the thesis is to explore ways in which mutual enrichment can be achieved through …
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A Virtual Reality Rehabilitation Interface with Augmented Sensing, Interaction, and Visualization Techniques
… development of multimodal sensing and rendering technologies, Virtual Reality (VR) has attracted enormous interest in unsupervised physical rehabilitation owing to its decisive advantages in turning traditional physical touchpoints into digital simulated empathy machinery. The shift from …
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Affordable technologies for point-of-care diagnostics
… diagnostics are needed for disease monitoring in low- resource settings (LRS). Gold-standard laboratory tests require expensive benchtop equipment, which limits their widespread use. In this work, I developed low-cost technologies for the transduction of two independent types of biosensors. In the …
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Printed electronics : the next inkjet revolution
… of next generation flat panel displays and low cost circuits to generation of biochips and fast-prototyping of 3-D objects. These new applications present existing inkjet players with exciting opportunities to leverage their knowledge and assets to exploit these new markets. This thesis …
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QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF LOW-COST DIGITALISATION ON THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF LOGISTICS SMEs
Low-cost digitalisation encompasses the use of low-cost (or free) hardware and software components that can be effortlessly integrated to create solutions. These (digital) solutions are usually simple, standalone, and support-oriented, thus keeping the total cost of deployment low. Because of its …